What do you think about Meteor.js?

Absolutely.

The myth about Meteor is that it's some magical new framework, when it's actually a compilation of many of the best parts of other frameworks. (They actually say this on their site).

In a way, Meteor is actually a package manager for another package manager, NPM.

I'm in no way dogging Meteor. Actually, it's my favorite way to develop an app right now.

I bring this up because most of the pushback I hear is surrounding, "oh no, not another JS framework ", when the reality is you're probably already using most of the JS that's in Meteor, and not doing it as well.

I think Meteor is a great place to start for those new to NodeJS and stands well as a long term app framework.

I love the MEAN stack for all of the things it makes possible, but I love doing those things in Meteor because of how seamless it is.

A good example is templates. If you've fooled around with Web Components or Polymer, you know templates rock. Meteor builds on the ease of just naming a template and then calling that template, no linking to the file needed.

It's also smart enough to review dependencies for JS calls you've made and simply load things in the correct order. This means no more screwing with, "jquery is undefined" or trying to decide if your script tag should go in the head or at the body bottom.

Try out the tutorial app. Try loading it on two different devices on two different networks (Meteor lets you deploy to your own subdomain in their servers). It will blow your mind when you see the real-time response.